Publications
The Business Development Series: Trade Area Capture and Trade Pull Factors for the Retail Trade Sectors (0.2 mb PDF). This newsletter reports the trade area capture, which is the estimate of the number of customers who have shopped in the local economy over a one-year period. It also provides the trade pull factors, which measures a region's ability to attract shoppers to make retail purchases within the region.
The Business Demographic Series: SOIC Demographic: This newsletter report highlights demographic profile of counties included in Southwestern Oklahoma Impact Coalition (SOIC). There are four sections in this report, which comprised of Personal Income, Employment, and Farm Income (Section A); Demographic Characteristic (Section B); Economic Characteristic (Section C); and Social Characteristic (Section D). Data was obtained from Regional Economic Information System (REIS) 2006 database, and the U.S. Census Bureau, Census 2000. All statistics data are presented in table format.
The Business Development Series: Location Quotient (0.4 mb PDF). This newsletter reports location quotient (LQ) information which is used to assess industry concentration. Local economists, regional developers, geographers, local governments, economic analysts and researchers can benefit from using these figures to identify exporting and importing industries.
The Business Development Series: Average Business | County (0.6 mb PDF). This newsletter reports the average number of businesses per county competing in a given industry for counties of similar population size in Oklahoma. This comparison allows business professionals to identify potential opportunities or threats in their local economy.
The Business Development Series: Threshold Analysis (0.4 mb PDF). This newsletter reports the average number of people it takes to support a business. Threshold figures are benchmarks that can be used for comparative purposes. One can use these benchmark figures to discover potential opportunities for new business start-ups and/or expansion in the local economy.
The CEBD is proud to announce the release of the latest installment in The Business Development Series: Oklahoma Trade Pull Factors (0.7 mb PDF) . This newsletter reports the trade pull factors of Oklahoma's seventy-seven counties and the trade pull factors of fifty Oklahoma communities. Trade pull factors relate a county's or city's ability to attract both resident and non-resident retail shoppers to its community through retail trade.
The Business Development Series: Threshold Analysis (0.2 mb PDF) This newsletter reports the threshold levels, which are the average number of people required to support a business competig in a specific industry, for retail, construction, and service businesses in Oklahoma and six sub-state regions.
The Business Development Series: Average Business/County (0.2 mb PDF) This newsletter groups Oklahoma's 77 counties into similar population sizes and reports the average number of construction, retail and service businesses in counties of similar sizes.
Some of our other recently published material focuses on reporting the economic impacts of situations presented to us by various clients. We use REMI software to measure the economic impacts of an economic/policy change upon the state of Oklahoma and sub-state regions.
The Economic Impact of the Oklahoma Agriculture Enhancement & Diversification (AED) Program and the Cooperatives & that it Supports (December, 2003) highlights the employment, income, output, tax and population impacts that the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture's (ODA) AED program has upon the state of Oklahoma.
The Economic Impact of the Arts in Oklahoma (December, 2003) reports the combined impacts of the Oklahoma Arts Council and the Arts organizations and events supported by the Oklahoma Arts Council. This counterfactual positive simulation highlights the employment, income, output, tax and population impacts upon the state of Oklahoma and each of the six sub-state regions.
Our Forecast Series (November, 2003) projects employment, gross regional product, real disposable income and population for the state of Oklahoma, the Oklahoma City MSA, the Tulsa MSA, Northeast Oklahoma, Southeast Oklahoma, Southwest Oklahoma, and Northwest Oklahoma. These two page summaries present the REMI model's control forecast from 2003 to 2010.
The Economic Impacts of Weatherford's Growth and its Implications for Exit 82 (September, 2003) reports the impacts that three current projects are forecasted to have upon the area's economy. The three modeled projects that occur in Weatherford include (1) the expansion and operation of a Machinery & Computer Manufacturing facility, (2) the construction and operation of a large retail pharmacy, and (3) the construction and operation of the Heartland of America Heritage Center Museum.
The Economic Impact of Southwestern Oklahoma State University on Oklahoma (September, 2003) is presented in a short brochure.
The Economic Impacts of Ag ChemCo (July, 2003) reports the impacts that an agricultural chemical company would have upon the state of Oklahoma and western Oklahoma.
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